I am very impressed by writings of my 16 year old niece in India.She is a new blogger Kudratduttachaudhary.blogspot.com.
In India gays and lesbians are not integrated in society like they are being done in USA.Even basic understanding of sexuality is many times very limited.
Hijra's or Khusra are normally Hermaphrodite,that means people having male and female sexual organs or not developed sex organs.They have had there own colonies and make a living by dancing and entertaining others.Some of them work as male prostitutes.
and though accepted have a very low status in society.Traditionally as no hormonal and surgical solutions were available to this group of people they supported each other and created Strong community.members of this group are some times called as the third sex.In that sense they are much different than Homosexuals in America.
Homosexuals are people who like people of the same sex as there partners. Physiologically they are clearly male or female.It is a choice may be based on some psychological or hormonal variation we do not yet understand.
Kudrat might be thinking of the third sex as she has used those words.She is encouraged by the Acceptance of Homosexual soldiers in American Military as a major change.
Talking about Taboo subjects by a young person is always commendable.
here is her blog
HOMOSEXUALITY ....start accepting !
Everything around us offers variety, that’s why all of us are DIFFERENT , because our likes and dislikes are varied ,there is difference in our opinions and also there is a HUGE distinction in how we PERCIEVE life . But no matter how assorted all of us are, we all are binded together under a common term called HUMANITY .
We all are humans , irrespective of the fact that somebody is a girl or boy ,black or white ,hindu or muslim, gothic or preppy, straight or bisexual or maybe something else ,our ways of life or even our thinking cannot segregate one section of the society from the other . From a lot many years we have been hearing or rather experiencing cases of discrimination on the basis of caste ,colour and creed .If you were a BLACK or BROWN you were not considered fit to access the privileges of the fairer community .If you were a girl ,you were not considered INTELLEGENT enough to compete with the stronger sex. We all brag about living in the TODAY’S time and proudly being a part of the 21st century , which I presume would have opened our thinking capsule and brought a sense of equality towards ‘everybody’ in our minds.
Sadly , all of my presumptions are proved false by the ongoing conditions around me .Thankfully we have feminists and other social activists to fight against discrimination against women and the coloureds ,but what concerns me is that do we have ENOUGH support and a felling of acceptance for people who are generally graded as “THE THIRD SEX” ?
The answer to this is that, many of us calling ourselves advanced are scared of GAYS AND LESBIANS ,for reasons best known to individuals themselves .Many a times we would maintain distance from them just because they are not the ones belonging from the COMMON genders. I mean if we deeply look into the case, and analyse the differences between them and us all I can point out is the BASIC VARIENT that they are attracted to their own gender .The the weirdness of our reaction makes them fear to come out with the truth and live openly with their INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY. Many of us would frown at the thought of someone known to us being a gay but the question is that was this their own CHOICE ?
Tomorrow your son can be a gay to, does that mean you would behave the same way like you would do NOW after meeting someone belonging to the third sex ? The good news is that now it has been legalised in our extremely cultured nation ,which found HOMOSEXUALITY as something corrupting the minds of the population .As a fact many kings of the historical legacy were gays, but were married to women to save the name of the family thus, spoiling an innocent girl’s life and therefore forcing her to enter into an extra marital relation .
I am grateful to people who made consensual sex between homosexuals LEGAL .I mean how can we CRIMINALIZE one’s physical demands and acts of satisfying them with someone who feels the same.
It’s supposed to be a free world and in that, NARROW thoughts which classify homosexuality as vulgar and cheap have no place and room for survival .
THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU, START EMPATHISING ,START ACCEPTING .......................
TOMORROW YOUR PRODUCE CAN BE A HOMOSEXUAL TOO AND IT ISN’T SOMETHING TO FROWN ABOUT BUT SOMETHING TO BE REFLECTED UPON ...
HOMOSEXUALS ARE A VITAL PART OF THE HUMANITY ........
Posted by Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary at 1:42 AM
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